Our Work
Our Latest
It’s National Public Health Week, a time to reflect on the health of our state and continue the conversation about how to further improve the health of our residents.
It was a special day at the Colorado Health Institute. We celebrated three decades of work – 10 years each – by three very special colleagues.
Legislators often say they can’t wave a magic wand and make money appear. Savvy budget experts, though, know that Colorado legislators do have the policy equivalent of a magic wand. A $600 million magic wand. It’s called the Hospital Provider Fee.
The Colorado Health Institute and the Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved (CCMU) will conduct a webinar this Thursday to discuss the Colorado Access to Care Index – a new tool to measure access to care.
Health care legislation continues to move through the Capitol, but most of the action for the next few weeks will involve the budget.
Next week I celebrate 10 years at the Colorado Health Institute, and in the timeless lyrics of the Pointer Sisters, I’m so excited. I’m excited that this milestone corresponds with the release of the Colorado Access to Care Index.
The Joint Budget Committee is meeting all week to finalize the budget for fiscal year 2015-16, which soon will command most of the time at the legislature. But several other health bills have been moving through the Capitol.
It’s official. The Colorado Health Access Survey is in the field. And even though this is the earliest the survey has ever been launched, it’s not a minute too soon.
The NCAA’s 2015 March Madness basketball tournament kicks off this week in Dayton, and in offices around the country eager onlookers are taking a shot at filling out that perfect bracket. Here at the Colorado Health Institute office, we’re celebrating the occasion in our own way: a March Madness-themed presentation to the legislature.
Issues raised in the King vs. Burwell case could lead to yet another lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act, according to members of the panel assembled by the Colorado Health Institute for last week's Brews and Views event.